Skin-based wearable devices have a great potential that could result in a revolutionary approach to health monitoring and diagnosing disease. With continued innovation and intensive attention to the materials and fabrication technologies, development of these healthcare devices is progressively encouraged. This article gives a concise, although admittedly non-exhaustive, didactic review of some...

Process support environments (PSEs) are widely used for modelling, enacting and analyzing human intensive processes. The benefits of a PSE become apparent when processes to be supported are long lived and distributed and contain heterogeneous components. Generally, such processes are subject to dynamic evolution, i.e. they have to be changed during their execution. Unfortunately, virtually none...

The vision of creating a next-generation Security Information and Event Management environment drives the development of an architecture which provides for trustworthy and resilient collection of security events from source systems, processes and applications. A number of novel inspection and analysis techniques are applied to the events collected to provide high-level situational security awar...

Pulse oximetry data such as saturation of peripheral oxygen (SpO(2)) and pulse rate are vital signals for early diagnosis of heart disease. Therefore, various pulse oximeters have been developed continuously. However, some of the existing pulse oximeters are not equipped with communication capabilities, and consequently, the continuous monitoring of patient health is restricted. Moreover, even ...

Despite recent increases in recycling, composting, and incineration, the sanitary landfill remains the predominant and most economical municipal solid waste (MSW) management alternative. Modern MSW landfills strive to optimize the design, construction, and operation processes in order to mitigate many of the potentially negative impacts, and improve the profitability. The bioreactor landfill (B...

Th ere are many techniques of conventional artifi cial lung ventilation (CV) that are widely used in clinical practice. However, these techniques can cause severe lung damages and also circulatory problems. Searching for new methods of artifi cial lung ventilation (ALV) that can provide the necessary gas exchange in lungs leads to implementation of new unconventional ventilatory techniques, esp...

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has established international safeguards standards for fissionable material at spent fuel reprocessing plants to ensure that significant quantities of weapons-useable nuclear material are not diverted from these facilities. For large throughput nuclear facilities, it is difficult to satisfy the IAEA safeguards accountancy goal for detection of abrup...

TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY Master’s Degree Programme in Automation Technology LÄÄPERI, TUOMAS: Intelligent Monitoring of Advanced Control and Optimization Master of Science Thesis, 71 pages November 2014 Major: Process Automation Examiners: Prof. Matti Vilkko and University Teacher Mikko Laurikkala

Many horses undergoing colic surgery require only basic post-operative care. However, upon recovery from general anesthesia of horses with serious problems, such as large colon injury secondary to a volvulus, more intensive post-operative medical management is necessary. The goal of critical care is to ensure that the tissues are receiving adequate oxygen and nutrients for maintenance and heali...

A short overview of Grid infrastructure status monitoring is given followed by a discussion of key concepts for advanced status monitoring systems: passive information gathering based on direct application instrumentation, indirect one based on service and middleware instrumentation, multidimensional matrix testing, and on-demand active testing using non-dedicated user identities. We also propo...